Culturally Speaking
We started Culturally Speaking to indulge our curiosity about the way others live and a desire to inspire conversations about how we have far more in common than we realise. Subscribe, rate and review on your favourite podcast platform. Follow us on Instagram @culturallyspeakingpodcast. Share your stories or your show ideas with us by sending an email to theculturallyspeaking@gmail.com.
Episodes
86 episodes
S6 E6 How Asians Eat and the Importance of Food
We couldn’t conclude a season on Asian culture without talking about a topic near and dear to our heart - food! Food is the cornerstone of Asian social interactions, everything centers around it and there isn’t an occasion from birth to death t...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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49:06
S6 E5 How Asians Approach Ageing and Death
Reverence to elders in Asian culture has been ingrained in us since birth. We discuss the social and economic strains of an ageing population in conflict with the elderly’s expectations of their latter years. Back in Season 1 we explored ...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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45:03
S6 E4 How Asians View Sex and Relationships
A topic that was traditionally taboo within Asian culture, not openly discussed much less on display, this week we are discussing relationships, love and sex. Does life imitate art when it comes to the portrayal of relationships in media or are...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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55:43
S6 E3 How Asians Navigate Professional Life
Work to live or live to work? This week we discuss how we have navigated our professional lives as Asians. Longtime listeners of the podcast will know we initially met as colleagues at work and thus the idea for Culturally Speaking was born. Fo...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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44:21
S6 E2 How Asians Come of Age
We discuss navigating the hormone-fuelled adolescent years and becoming an adult within our respective Asian cultures this week. From personal space at home to attitudes to sexuality, tune in to hear our experiences about coming of age in Hong ...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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59:32
S6 E1 How Asians Grow Up
We’re taking it right back to the beginning for the first episode of Season 6 - growing up Asian. Were our school days on the playground footloose and carefree or full of extracurricular achievements to make Asian Tiger mums proud? Tune in to h...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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38:15
S5 Finale Part 2 - What Does It Mean To Be British? with Jadem
To conclude this season we invite a guest and good friend to join us for Part 2 of Season 5’s finale on British culture. Jadem is Columbian man living and working in London who shares his experiences of moving and living in the UK. From Colombi...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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34:17
S5 Finale Part 1 - What Does It Mean To Be British? with Adewale
This week we invite a guest and good friend to join us for Part 1 of Season 5’s finale on British culture. Adewale is a Nigerian man living and working in London who shares his experiences of living in the UK over the last decade. From British ...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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39:05
S5 E9 Lesser Known British Celebrations Part 2
This week we are picking up where we left off last week with Part 2 of British holidays and traditions. First up is Burns Night where haggis, bagpipes and bards rule and we continue the Scottish theme with Hogmany (check out Part 1 last week, E...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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46:28
S5 E8 Lesser Known British Celebrations Part 1
This week we're recording across time zones, from Hong Kong to London we are talking about British holidays and traditions. Starting with Lent in the run-up to Easter (check out Season 1, Episode 2 to hear how they celebrate around the world, C...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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42:25
S5 S7 British Entertainment Part 2
This week we are continuing our discussion of British entertainment. We move from the big to small screen; British soaps, iconic children's TV shows (Teletubbies anyone?) and recent British dramas that are being broadcasting around the globe. H...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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39:14
S5 E6 British Entertainment Part 1
This week we delve into the world of British entertainment. Our small isle has exported more than its fair share of talent, from the cinema to music we share our all time favourites. Janice threatens #girlpower by revealing she's not a Spice Gi...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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42:55
S5 E5 British Fashion: designers, models and beauty standards
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak - this week we are talking about the British fashion industry. London is one of the ‘big four’ Fashion Weeks of the year and British designers have a long history of setting the course o...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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50:40
S5 E4 A Journey Through British Food History
On this week’s episode we dive into British culinary history which only seems fitting given our love of food and cooking. From Regency breakfasts to more dubious Victorian meats, tune in to learn to get to know a negus from a broxy. The Ministr...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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54:19
S5 E3 British Immigration, the Fabric of British Society Part 2
Continuing our conversation Immigration in British culture, this week’s episode picks up where we left off in Part 1 with us sharing our families’ experiences of immigration. In Part 2, Janice shares her experience of the handover in Hong Kong ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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39:03
S5 E2 British Immigration, the Fabric of British Society Part 1
Continuing Season 5 on British culture, this week’s episode focuses on something that is intrinsic to making British society what it is today: immigration. In Part 1 we start off with the basics, what is immigration? We move on to discuss the d...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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33:16
S5 E1 British Monarchy Traditions and History of the Royal Family
Welcome back to another season of Culturally Speaking! We’re back after a summer of travels and in Season 5 we will be focusing on British culture, something dear to our hearts as girls that love living in London.The recording of the fir...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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57:46
S4 E10 Tina Fumo on Getting Her Granddaughter back from Child Protection Services
Tina Fumo’s granddaughter was 10 days old when Child Protection took her away from her family, an ordeal Tina wrote about in her memoir, Fancy Prison. Tina describes how the system breeds confusion and perpetuates lies which resulted in a 7 mon...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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35:46
S4 E9 Rebecca Lemke On Escaping from a Gothardism Cult at 16
Rebecca grew up in Oklahoma as part of a Gothardism cult, which she escaped aged 16. Rebecca shares how her family joined the cult, what life was like in the cult, homeschooling and how she planned her escape. She details the layers of control ...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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58:32
S4 E8 Suzi Dent On Being Sexually Assaulted by Rolf Harris, Being a Witness in Operation Yewtree and #MeToo
Suzi is an Australian hair and makeup artist who has worked in film and TV for 37 years. When working as a makeup artist in Australian TV she was groped by TV personality and Australian entertainer Rolf Harris. Despite being in a studio of othe...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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51:28
S4 E7 Hope Reger On Navigating the Loss of Her Son and Going from Grief to Hope
Hope’s life was forever changed when her 19 year old son died in 2017. She shares how she felt when the police officers knocked on her door, how she dealt with the immediate aftermath of her son’s passing and how through her own grief she found...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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44:28
S4 E6 Nate Dukes On Being Told You'll Never Change from a Life of Drugs, Gambling and Jail
In his early twenties Nate was a business owner chasing success while dealing with a secret drug addiction. After constantly hitting rock bottom, hurting everyone close, stealing a car and going to jail. A chance encounter in jail and rendition...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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55:37
S4 E5 Christopher Chambers, a Film Director Telling the Stories of 3 Women who Survived the Ethiopian Red Terror
Christopher Chambers, director and writer of A Fire Within, an award-winning human rights documentary about three courageous women and their inspiring and historic attempt to bring their torturer to justice in Atlanta, Georgia. It chronicles th...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:00:44
S4 E4 Craig Brown The Recovery Minister: Turning from Drugs to the Church
Craig Brown is a Recovery Pastor at Church of the Redeemer in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He shares how he overcame a life of pain, shame, and destruction and escaped what he refers to as the ‘Pit of Hell’ of the drug world in the 1980s. He describ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:04:47
S4 E3 Dan Garodnick - Saving Stuyvesant Town and 30,000 People from Homelessness
As a 12-year Member of the New York City Council Dan Garodnick was known as one of New York's most independent voices and effective legislators. Dan is a fierce tenant advocate and, in 2015, negotiated the largest affordable housing preservatio...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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44:25